An almost theological debate. For a long time, the European debate on industrial policy had been unbending, almost theological: the very words were banned, because they were so evocative of Soviet five-year plans and the idea that the State itself decided what goods were to be produced for the good of the people. The Commission's Directorate General for industrial policy changed its name. Today, the semantic battle has done its time and the expression has been released from quarantine, the...